Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,803 5,471 7,059
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.71% 22.85% 19.12%
As % of the General category 34.42% 35.63% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,996 3,646 4,924
10th Percentile £356 £355 £360
25th Percentile £447 £431 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £592
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.83% -1.38%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 96 237
10th Percentile £14.82 £18.36 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.55 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £40.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.94% +49.07% +5.02%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.63 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £26.78 £41.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.47% +53.70% +0.58%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,668 15,353 21,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.36% 64.13% 57.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,861 9,909 13,633
10th Percentile £312 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £744 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,572 702 1,819
10th Percentile £14.11 £13.26 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -8.20% -4.45%
75th Percentile £62.25 £53.75 £52.20
90th Percentile £80.97 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.93% -6.67% -7.41%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,716 £575 -6.12% 3,273
North of England +3 1,210 £492 +4.90% 846
South East -1 642 £500 -4.31% 894
North West +5 640 £465 +1.92% 496
Midlands -1 597 £492 +3.58% 482
Yorkshire +2 528 £519 +8.64% 272
West Midlands 0 409 £500 -0.40% 304
South West -2 364 £525 - 352
East of England +3 194 £520 -9.57% 235
East Midlands 0 183 £468 +6.36% 177
North East -17 43 £488 +7.73% 85
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 280 (3.59%) Confluence
2 198 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 77 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 58 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.56%) Apache
7 25 (0.32%) SAS
8 23 (0.29%) CMS
9 20 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 13 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.17%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Camunda
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.12%) Ethereum
15 8 (0.10%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.10%) Mendix
16 7 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 6 (0.077%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 438 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 177 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 150 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 148 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 108 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 46 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 33 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.064%) Trello
9 4 (0.051%) Notion
9 4 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.051%) Sketch
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.026%) InVision
10 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.013%) UXPin
11 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 274 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 94 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
4 80 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 66 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
7 46 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
8 43 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
9 39 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
10 37 (0.47%) SAP FI
11 35 (0.45%) Aladdin
12 31 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
12 31 (0.40%) SAP CO
13 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 25 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
16 22 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
16 22 (0.28%) Workday HCM
17 21 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
18 20 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,244 (15.94%) Azure
2 898 (11.51%) AWS
3 538 (6.89%) Power Platform
4 379 (4.86%) GCP
5 271 (3.47%) SaaS
6 269 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 250 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.65%) GitHub
9 198 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 151 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 143 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 128 (1.64%) Serverless
13 100 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 99 (1.27%) Amazon S3
15 96 (1.23%) OCI
16 90 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
17 83 (1.06%) OpenShift
18 80 (1.03%) dbt
19 76 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
20 73 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 142 (1.82%) Firewall
2 115 (1.47%) Network Security
3 65 (0.83%) DNS
4 63 (0.81%) VPN
5 55 (0.70%) WAN
6 54 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.47%) BGP
8 31 (0.40%) LAN
9 30 (0.38%) HTTP
10 27 (0.35%) DHCP
10 27 (0.35%) SSL
11 26 (0.33%) OSPF
12 24 (0.31%) MPLS
12 24 (0.31%) Multicast
13 21 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.27%) VSAN
14 19 (0.24%) VLAN
15 14 (0.18%) DMZ
16 13 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 458 (5.87%) Power BI
2 217 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 207 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 149 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
5 141 (1.81%) Metadata
6 131 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 125 (1.60%) Tableau
8 108 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 88 (1.13%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
11 65 (0.83%) Big Data
12 62 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 54 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 46 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.53%) Power Query
16 41 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (0.51%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
19 31 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 594 (7.61%) JIRA
2 183 (2.35%) Git
3 137 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.11%) GitLab
5 45 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 44 (0.56%) JUnit
7 35 (0.45%) Selenium
8 29 (0.37%) Postman
9 27 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 24 (0.31%) MLflow
10 24 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.29%) Visual Studio
12 19 (0.24%) REST Assured
13 18 (0.23%) Zephyr
14 17 (0.22%) ERwin
14 17 (0.22%) Maven
15 15 (0.19%) Hudson
16 14 (0.18%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.17%) Bitbucket
18 11 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 2,274 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 1,453 (18.62%) Banking
3 1,028 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 445 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 323 (4.14%) Legal
6 315 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 294 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 284 (3.64%) Front Office
9 257 (3.29%) Retail
10 243 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
11 197 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
12 181 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 139 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 138 (1.77%) Manufacturing
15 135 (1.73%) Marketing
16 127 (1.63%) Local Government
17 126 (1.61%) Law
18 124 (1.59%) General Ledger
19 115 (1.47%) Telecoms
20 112 (1.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,166 (14.94%) Analyst
2 874 (11.20%) Senior
3 814 (10.43%) Lead
4 794 (10.18%) Developer
5 732 (9.38%) Architect
6 613 (7.86%) Project Manager
7 607 (7.78%) Business Analyst
8 506 (6.48%) Consultant
9 303 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 270 (3.46%) Data Engineer
11 205 (2.63%) Senior Manager
12 193 (2.47%) Financial Analyst
13 165 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 160 (2.05%) Accountant
15 156 (2.00%) Programme Manager
16 153 (1.96%) Finance Manager
17 148 (1.90%) Software Engineer
18 147 (1.88%) Senior Developer
19 144 (1.85%) Java Developer
20 139 (1.78%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (2.99%) .NET
2 229 (2.93%) REST
3 224 (2.87%) Kafka
4 211 (2.70%) React
5 171 (2.19%) Middleware
6 164 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 132 (1.69%) Spring
8 130 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 120 (1.54%) RESTful
10 98 (1.26%) Node.js
11 96 (1.23%) PySpark
12 89 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 87 (1.11%) Redux
14 71 (0.91%) JSON
15 70 (0.90%) OAuth
16 68 (0.87%) XML
17 59 (0.76%) CSS
17 59 (0.76%) Pandas
18 57 (0.73%) HTML
19 55 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 353 (4.52%) Onboarding
2 334 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 309 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 216 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 190 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 164 (2.10%) Data Structures
7 150 (1.92%) Derivative
8 142 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 141 (1.81%) Fixed Income
10 139 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 137 (1.76%) Data Centre
12 128 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
13 110 (1.41%) Equities
14 96 (1.23%) Virtual Team
15 94 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 93 (1.19%) Public Cloud
17 92 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
18 80 (1.03%) AI Agents
18 80 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 71 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 269 (3.45%) Windows
2 246 (3.15%) Linux
3 124 (1.59%) Unix
4 64 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.46%) Solaris
7 29 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.33%) Android
10 23 (0.29%) zOS
11 17 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.21%) AIX
13 7 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.064%) VMS
16 4 (0.051%) HPUX
16 4 (0.051%) MVS
16 4 (0.051%) SUSE
17 3 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,632 (20.92%) Agile
2 1,600 (20.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,098 (14.07%) Migration
4 1,021 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 878 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 849 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 838 (10.74%) DevOps
8 802 (10.28%) CI/CD
9 777 (9.96%) ERP
10 771 (9.88%) AI
11 758 (9.71%) Analytics
12 716 (9.18%) Project Management
13 670 (8.59%) Decision-Making
14 658 (8.43%) Data Modelling
15 642 (8.23%) Roadmaps
16 638 (8.18%) Validation
17 612 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
18 585 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
19 557 (7.14%) Change Management
20 508 (6.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,102 (14.12%) SQL
2 951 (12.19%) Python
3 526 (6.74%) Java
4 338 (4.33%) C#
5 214 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 206 (2.64%) TypeScript
7 168 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 90 (1.15%) C++
9 70 (0.90%) Bash
10 67 (0.86%) Go
11 64 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 62 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 50 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 49 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 42 (0.54%) Scala
16 38 (0.49%) VBA
17 27 (0.35%) Apex Code
17 27 (0.35%) Bicep
17 27 (0.35%) Rust
18 25 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 672 (8.61%) Degree
2 619 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 440 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 202 (2.59%) ACCA
5 199 (2.55%) PMP
6 182 (2.33%) CIMA
7 167 (2.14%) PMI Certification
8 140 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 126 (1.61%) CISSP
10 124 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 82 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 77 (0.99%) CISM
13 73 (0.94%) DV Cleared
14 68 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 55 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
16 41 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
17 38 (0.49%) AWS Certification
18 34 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 31 (0.40%) DBS Check
20 30 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 355 (4.55%) QA
3 290 (3.72%) PMO
4 275 (3.52%) GDPR
5 154 (1.97%) NIST
6 130 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 107 (1.37%) IFRS
8 95 (1.22%) SLA
9 88 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 82 (1.05%) GRC
11 70 (0.90%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.81%) PCI DSS
13 55 (0.70%) GAAP
14 53 (0.68%) ISO 20022
15 35 (0.45%) NCSC
16 34 (0.44%) PSD2
17 33 (0.42%) SEPA
18 28 (0.36%) IFRS 17
19 25 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
19 25 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 265 (3.40%) Docker
2 150 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.37%) vSphere
5 23 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 23 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.14%) NFS
9 7 (0.090%) GPFS
10 6 (0.077%) KVM
10 6 (0.077%) RACF
11 5 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.051%) SRDF
13 3 (0.038%) GridGain
13 3 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.026%) ACF2
14 2 (0.026%) Ceph
14 2 (0.026%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 360 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 224 (2.87%) Terraform
3 115 (1.47%) Ansible
4 77 (0.99%) Grafana
5 64 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 41 (0.53%) SCCM
8 33 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.24%) Control-M
10 18 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.22%) vRealize
12 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.17%) AirWatch
13 13 (0.17%) Nessus
14 12 (0.15%) Puppet
15 11 (0.14%) Argo
15 11 (0.14%) CASB
16 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,010 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 641 (8.21%) Oracle
3 627 (8.04%) SAP
4 270 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 232 (2.97%) Databricks
6 185 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 171 (2.19%) Google
8 117 (1.50%) Workday
9 109 (1.40%) Splunk
10 107 (1.37%) VMware
11 97 (1.24%) Cisco
12 82 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 77 (0.99%) IBM
14 64 (0.82%) Citrix
15 56 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 52 (0.67%) Ariba
16 52 (0.67%) Sage
17 47 (0.60%) Bloomberg
17 47 (0.60%) IFS
17 47 (0.60%) Murex